assess

Definitions

vassessevaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of"I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional","access all the factors when taking a risk"

vassessestimate the value of (property) for taxation"Our house hasn't been assessed in years"

vassessset or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

vassesscharge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

AssessTo apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.

AssessTo determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents.

AssessTo fix or determine the rate or amount of."This sum is assessed and raised upon individuals by commissioners in the act."

AssessTo value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

assessTo set, fix, or charge a certain sum upon, by way of tax: as, to assess each individual in due proportion.

assessTo estimate the value or amount of (property or income) as a basis for taxation.—3. To set, fix, or determine: as, it is the province of a jury to assess damages.

nassessAssessment.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

v.tAssessas-ses′ to fix the amount of, as a tax (with upon): to tax or fine: to fix the value or profits of, for taxation (with at): to estimate

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Quotations

Nelson Algren

“The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

OF. assesser, to regulate, settle, LL. assessare, to value for taxation, fr. L. assidere, supine as if assessum, to sit by, esp. of judges in a court, in LL. to assess, tax. Cf. Assize (v.) Cess

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Fr.—L. assessāre, freq. of assidēre, assessum, to sit by, esp. of judges in a court, from ad, to, at, sedēre, to sit.

Usage

In literature:

Assessment, collection, exemption, were all alike conducted without definite principles or uniform system.

He had no manner of assessing the powers wielded by these strangers from space.

"Adaptation" by Dallas McCord Reynolds

The assessed value of property in the five principal counties of Minnesota is $805,417.48.

"The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851" by Various

Let this be borne in mind when we assess the moral and material damage done to the Transvaal by the Jameson Raid.

"The War in South Africa" by Arthur Conan Doyle

Such facts as these must have a bearing on assessing the downward extension.

"Principles of Mining" by Herbert C. Hoover

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In poetry:

Attentive eyes, fantastic heed,
Assessing minds, he does not need,
Nor urgent writs to sup or dine,
Nor pledges in the roseate wine.

"A Poet" by Thomas Hardy

The real estate assessment roll
Would be but plundering per se,
If still the courts did not control
And hold that deeds convey the fee.

"The Deed Vs. Assessment Rolls" by Samuel Alfred Beadle

But ALICE was a pious girl, who knew it wasn't wise
To look at strange young sorters with expressive purple eyes;
So she sought the village priest to whom her family confessed,
The priest by whom their little sins were carefully assessed.

"Gentle Alice Brown" by William Schwenck Gilbert

In news:

NOTICE OF RESOLUTION LEVYING THE ASSESSMENT TO DEFRAY ANNUAL COSTS OF STREET MAINTENANCE.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires the performance of public schools receiving Title I money to be evaluated annually, according to the state's approved assessment accountability system.

That's how long many activists say the public has been waiting for the finalization of a "science assessment" report that formally links dioxins to many serious and chronic health hazards that can be life-threatening to humans.

The structure of a standard percolation cluster can be characterized with the help of the “colored sites” picture in which one assesses the role of an element to the connectivity of the spanning cluster.

Susceptibility and Percolation in 2D Random Field Ising Magnets

At present it is diﬃcult to assess the relation of VLA J123642.09+621331.4 to the XLF because its X-ray luminosity is ≈ 10 times lower than those used for all high-redshift XLF studies to date.

The Chandra Deep Survey of the Hubble Deep Field North Area. IV. An Ultradeep Image of the HDF-N

In conventional NMR experiments these pulses are used to implement particular transformations on the Bloch sphere, such as inversion, and their quality can be easily assessed by determining the eﬃciency with which some known starting state is transferred to the desired ﬁnal state.

A Simple and Convenient Measure of NMR Rotor Fidelity

The propagator ﬁdelity provides a simple and convenient measure of rotor ﬁdelity which can be used to assess the quality of NMR composite pulses designed to act as general rotors.

A Simple and Convenient Measure of NMR Rotor Fidelity

Recently, it was pointed out that ﬁnancial covariances are permeated by Gaussian noise in the low-lying eigenvalue region with consequences on risk assessment .

Free Random Levy Variables and Financial Probabilities

Linearized Boltxmann transport equation is extensively used in nuclear engineering to assess the transport behaviour of radiation in bulk materials.

Monte Carlo: Basics

The assessment method does not consist, as usually done with IE systems, in calculating a precision and a recall.

Generating a 3D Simulation of a Car Accident from a Written Description in Natural Language: the CarSim System

Counting functions is a crude way of assessing the generality of a class of solutions of a partial differential equation. A better characterization of generality is given in terms of open sets of initial data.

Applications of the theory of evolution equations to general relativity

In particular, one can more accurately quantify and understand the selection biases and assess cluster evolution when using joint optical/NIR/x-ray surveys than can be achieved when employing any single cluster survey.

Multi-wavelength Surveys for Distant Clusters

To assess this hypothesis, consider α which denotes the ratio of the outward radiation pressure on the circumstellar envelope (gas plus dust) compared to the inward force of gravity.

The Very Slow Wind From the Pulsating Semiregular Red Giant L2 Pup

Therefore, it is also possible to assess the similarity in the dynamics depending on a certain delay.

Nonlinear analysis of bivariate data with cross recurrence plots

The effects of the discrete measurement are more diﬃcult to assess.

A Search for Gamma-Ray Bursts and Pulsars, and the Application of Kalman Filters to Gamma-Ray Reconstruction